WO1997016679A1 - Vertical cavity surface emitting laser arrays for illumination - Google Patents
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- This invention is in the field of semiconductor light emitting devices. More specifically, the invention relates to light emitting diodes("LED”s) and vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (“VCSEL"s).
- LEDs have improved markedly in the last twenty years, but, at approximately 1 lm per LED, they are simply not an economical alternative for area lighting purposes.
- the present invention comprises a two dimensional array of 30 to 100 GaAlAs or GalnAs VCSELs, generating light at wavelengths of 850 nm and 980 nm, respectively.
- the individual VCSELs are driven in parallel from a single current source.
- each laser is generating a relatively low amount of power; in this case, 3mW.
- This array can be used for infra-red("IR") wireless communication, such as the IrDA standard, but at higher speeds than can be obtained using LEDs.
- IR local area networks("LAN"s) or interactive TV can also utilize this embodiment of the present invention.
- a plurality of VCSEL arrays assembled together within a single housing and with each array operating at a different visible light wavelength, are driven in parallel at low power per individual VCSEL element.
- the different wavelengths ofthe individual VCSEL arrays cover the edges ofthe chromaticity diagram, a white area lighting source of extremely high efficiency is created.
- Fig. 1 shows the first embodiment ofthe present invention, for use in IR communication
- Fig. 2 shows a second embodiment ofthe present invention, for use as an area illumination device; and Fig. 3 shows how the second embodiment ofthe present invention can be incorporated into a package compatible with known lighting systems.
- VCSEL VCSEL with a conversion efficiency from electrical power to optical flux of 50% (5 mW of optical power from a 5 mA current and 2V voltage).
- the Sandia VCSEL used a GalnAs material system, generated light at a wavelength of 980nm and was roughly 8-10 microns in diameter.
- VCSEL arrays (1x8) of GaAlAs operating at 850 nm have been fabricated.
- the inventor herein has experimented with these arrays by operating the VCSELs in parallel from a single source. Although these arrays operate at only 15-25% conversion efficiency, as compared to Sandia's 50%, they verify the feasibility of operating large arrays of VCSELs in parallel without thermal runaway. Thermal runaway occurred in early power transistors when one emitter finger in the array of emitter fingers used in a single power transistor began to "hog" the current, which increased its operating temperature, which in turn led to even higher current usage, in an accelerating cycle that led to the destruction ofthe transistor. The inventor herein believes that the series resistance ofthe Bragg reflectors in each ofthe VCSELs, undesirable as it is, stabilizes the device and prevents current hogging.
- an optical power source is obtained.
- a first embodiment shown in Fig. 1, an array of approximately 10 ⁇ m VCSELs 1 1, spaced 40 ⁇ m apart center-to-center is fabricated on a 20 x 20 mil chip 13.
- a 12 x 12 laser array is easily accommodated.
- a total of 128 lasers allows for a 5 X 5 mil bonding area 15. If each laser is operated at 2 mA and 2 V, delivering 2 mW of optical flux, then the total input power to the array is 0.5 W and the optical output power is approximately 0.25 W. The remaining 0.25 W must be removed as heat. Removing the heat is a straightforward task.
- the thermal resistance comprises a spreading term from the 10 ⁇ m circle to the substrate and a linear term of thermal resistance between the lasers and the back surface ofthe chip.
- the spreading resistance raises the temperature by 1.4°C and the substrate adds another 2.9 °C for a total chip related temperature rise of 4.3 °C.
- Mounting the chip on a heat spreading substrate, such as chemical vapor deposition("CVD") grown diamond, A1N or plain copper controls the heat flux without a significant temperature rise.
- the VCSELs can also be mounted face down on a heat spreading substrate, which would further reduce the temperature rise within the chip. In this case, the light would be extracted through the substrate.
- the GaAs substrate is transparent. At shorter wavelengths, the substrate would have to be replaced by wafer bonding the structure to a GaP substrate.
- LEDs fabricated from GaAlAs and radiating at 850 nm have a demonstrated internal quantum efficiency of 100%.
- Proper optimization ofthe VCSEL design in an array similar to that shown in Fig. 1 should result in power conversion efficiencies greater than 50%.
- Such optical power sources would enable IR communication at higher speeds than known IR LEDs permit. They may permit IR LANs and interactive TV. Another possible application is using the arrays for security illumination.
- VCSEL arrays The most significant application for VCSEL arrays is for illumination, using a series of arrays that individually generate light in different parts ofthe visible light spectrum.
- Sandia National Laboratory has demonstrated red VCSELs fabricated from a GaAlInP material system. These VCSELs generated light at wavelengths from 635-680 nm and at power levels as high as 8 mW for a single VCSEL. The conversion efficiency for the best devices was approximately 15%.
- GalnN devices In the green and blue portions ofthe visible light spectrum, GalnN devices have demonstrated lasing by optical pumping and green/blue Fabry-Perot lasers have been demonstrated with a ZnSe material system. In the relatively near future, GalnN will be used in Fabry-Perot lasers and in VCSELs.
- the IR VCSEL chip described above can then be scaled to 1 X 1 mm with the same area density of lasers to provide a monochromatic visible light illumination VCSEL array chip.
- This chip with approximately 500 lasers operating at 2 mA per laser, would have an optical flux of 1 W at 50% conversion efficiency.
- At 560 nm, such a chip would generate a luminous flux of 680 lm.
- At an input current of 1 A and an applied voltage of 2 V, the chip would have a luminous efficiency of 340 lm/W.
- a white light source can be constructed from six VCSEL chips, each chip having an optical flux of 1 W and generating light at equally spaced wavelengths between 475 nm (blue light) and 625 nm (red light).
- Table 1 shows the wavelength/flux relationship for a VCSEL illumination source having six VCSEL arrays and an input of 12 W. This light source with an input of 12 W will generate an optical flux of approximately 2400 lm. Its efficiency is roughly 200 lm/W. A comparison with conventional white light sources of comparable flux levels is shown in Table 2. The 2400 lm flux is equivalent to the flux of a 170 W incandescent light bulb.
- Fig. 2 is a schematic drawing of such a white light illumination source 20 comprised of VCSEL arrays 21 through 26, inclusive.
- the VCSEL arrays each generate a different wavelength of visible light. In a first preferred embodiment, these arrays will generate light at the wavelengths listed in Table 1.
- the VCSEL arrays are in turn coupled to power supply 30 through controller 35.
- power supply 30 must be capable of driving each of the lasers in all ofthe VCSEL arrays in parallel at the minimum current required for lasing. Controller 35 will permit additional operational flexibility by permitting the user to command more or less light output from the individual arrays and from all ofthe arrays simultaneously. In so doing, the user can control the color temperature ofthe source 20, as well as its final light output.
- a VCSEL based light source would offer several other additional advantages over known illumination sources.
- Controller 35 can be used to effect this dimming by reducing the drive current to each ofthe VCSEL arrays equally and in parallel.
- the dimming range can be further extended if the VCSEL elements of each array have a single common cathode but multiple, independent anodes. This would allow parts ofthe VCSEL array to be turned on and off independently. Assuming that 10 separate anodes were fabricated for a single array, the dimming range ofthe array could be extended by an additional factor of 10, in combination with reducing the drive current.
- the color temperature ofthe light can be changed from bluish cold white to a more yellow, warmer white or any variation or combination in between.
- Source 20 can thus operate over the entire chromaticity diagram.
- a single white light source can also be used as a monochromatic light source of at least six different colors with only a small additional expense. Combined with the dimming ability previously described, the ability to vary color and/or temperature makes the present invention a universal source for decorative or theatrical lighting.
- Fluorescent lamps generate white light by stimulating a phosphor layer with UV light.
- the phosphor layer is a mixture of phosphors generating predominantly three nearly monochromatic lines of light (red, green and blue).
- the VCSEL light source would use six lines of light which improves the color rendering of the illumination source.
- the described white light source has the inherent modulation speed of VCSELs, which can be turned off and on at gigahertz frequencies. This allows the illumination source to be used to distribute signals at gigabits per second rates.
- a low cost, highly asymmetric local area network where high speed signals such as video are broadcast via the light source and low speed signals use conventional telephone wiring can be readily constructed using the present invention.
- a unidirectional signal distribution system in a grocery store, wherein the VCSEL white light illumination source is used both for illumination and signal transmission would permit battery powered electronic shelf labels to be updated through the lighting system without the installation of an IR or RF broadcast system.
- optical receivers are simpler than RF receivers.
- the illumination power levels are very high, permitting the construction of a visible light receiver that would be even simpler than an IR receiver.
- Light sources constructed according to the present invention experience no "turn on” delays, unlike the turn on delay commonly associated with fluorescent light sources. They also have a lifetime measured in tens of thousands of hours, and perhaps as long as ten years.
- the light output from an individual VCSEL is a collimated beam with a dispersion of approximately 10°.
- This beam can be intercepted with low cost optical surfaces to redistribute the flux efficiently to wherever illumination is desired. In case where light spilling is unnecessary or undesirable, this feature translates into another 2x to 5x efficiency improvement when compared with isotropic high temperature conventional light sources.
- VCSEL array operates at roughly room temperature, optical surfaces can be located safely in very close proximity. This permits the design and construction of very compact, flat lighting fixtures that are consistent with flush ceiling mounts in commercial or residential buildings.
- VCSELs for illumination does raise the issue of eye safety. Light with a temporal coherent wavefront can readily be focused by the eye into a diffraction limited spot on the retina. If the power level in this spot exceeds approximately 200 ⁇ W, permanent damage to the retina can result.
- the VCSEL array has a unique feature that answers the eye safety issue. If the diameter ofthe individual elements in the VCSEL is increased to 20 to 25 ⁇ m, then the
- VCSEL no longer lases as one element with temporal coherence.
- the emitting area breaks into multiple filaments that are not locked into a single coherent mode. If adjacent VCSELs are separated by roughly 20-50 ⁇ m, the array behaves like a number of independent lasers.
- Temporal coherence is limited to the flux of individual elements, which, in the first preferred embodiment operate at roughly 2 mW each.
- the temporal coherence of an individual laser element can also be destroyed by intersecting the beam with a holograph-like phase shifting surface. Instead of having to destroy the phase coherence of a 1 W laser, the coherence of many independent 2 mW lasers needs to be destroyed. Thus, the phase coherence must be reduced by a single order of magnitude, as opposed to nearly four orders of magnitude.
- light source 20 of Fig. 2 can be packaged to fit into a known light source package; here, a standard incandescent screw-in light bulb, creating a lighting source 100 that can be easily retrofitted.
- VCSEL arrays 21 through 26 are mounted on ceramic substrate 27 and controlled by controller 35.
- Discrete power supply components 30 are located behind substrate 27 and receive power through socket 28 from a power source.
- Primary beam shaping optics 40 has rear optical surface 41 which destroys the phase coherence of VCSELs 21 through 26 to prevent eye damage and front surface 42 which shapes the light after its phase coherence has been destroyed.
- Secondary beam shaping optics 45 are used to collimate and focus the beam to suit the particular lighting application. By changing secondary beam shaping optics 45, one lighting source can serve in many different applications.
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